Perfume by Patrick Süskind and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I bought Perfume because I've wanted to read it for ages and The Virgin Suicides because I'd read about it recently and thought it sounded promising.
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Perfume by Patrick Süskind and The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I bought Perfume because I've wanted to read it for ages and The Virgin Suicides because I'd read about it recently and thought it sounded promising.
Machiavelli's The Prince - I have heard so many thing about it I was curious to see what its about.
(The what)
The Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table - Oliver Wendell Holmes
(The wherefore)
I had not read it, it was in perfect condition for a second printing and only 50 cents at a charity shop.
Rimbaud's complete works. I'd heard references in Dylan songs and decided to check it out.
I love "My Bohemian Life", which I read first due to its influence on the Dylan tune "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues".
Wuthering Heights - Like the Kate Bush song, and want to see if its novelization lives up to the musical version. :ciappa:
Making Money, Terry Pratchett - this makes my Discworld collection complete.
Yeah, I hear Ms Bronte made some quick buck by writing that book based on the song but writing seems a little dramatic and sensationalist.Quote:
Originally Posted by LuggageFan
The Zookeeper's War..By Steven Conte.
It has won Prime Minister's Award..2008 (Australia).
I also like the cover:thumbsup:
I like to read about animals, my favourite was Water For Elephants.:seeya
Entire Works of Edgar Allen Poe
Because I had not read any of his writing, yet of course had hear about the Raven and other snips, so thought I would try to read a piece at a time between other books.
"Subculture: The Meaning of Style" - Dick Hebdige
"The Hip Hop Wars" - Tricia Rose
"Lords of Chaos" - Michael Moynihan
"Sober Living for the Revolution" - Gabriel Kuhn
"The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise" - Craig O'Hara
"Notes From Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture" -Stephen Duncombe
"Make a Zine!" - Bill Brent
"Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore" - Albert Mudrian
"We Owe You Nothing" - Daniel Sinker
"Zine Yearbook #9" from Microcosm Publishing
Big ole' order for school, for a humanities class I'm taking about underground subcultures (primarily subcultures centered around music). I'm super excited for the class, since I'm a fan of and very interested in all of the genres we're covering (black/death metal, punk/hardcore, and hip-hop) and the class is (from what I understand) going to be very independent and research oriented.
Just bought Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time by Joseph Frank. It's the abridged (only 1,000 pages lol) version of his epic 5-volume biography. Dostoevsky is my favorite writer, I'm borderline obsessed with him, and I'm really psyched to travel through his life.
Well, I just received an Amazon shipment of 31 books: novels, short story collections, and a couple Latin textbooks, all for the upcoming semester. I will not bother listing all of them, but at the moment I am reading Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme. I LOVE it.
Yes... Barthleme can be quite marvelous.
My own most recent purchase was that of The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino. Because of copyright issues (idiot lawyers!) Calvino's Cosmicomics only appeared in the US in a truncated form. Even at that, the collection was brilliant... but what can I say, I love Calvino. When I discovered that the complete edition (nearly 4 times as long as the US edition!) was available through Amazon, I had to immediately jump upon it... even if that meant paying for international shipping from the UK.
A few days ago I found a 1949 copy of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a thrift store for a dollar, so I figured I might as well get it. I also found The Quincunx by Charles Palliser for the same price, and got it because I remember someone on this site saying that it was great, so...
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver
True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
I'm the King of the Castle - Susan Hill
The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
In the Springtime of the Year - Susan Hill
The Drowned World - J.G. Ballard
The Leopard - Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk
Yesterday:
The Wild Palms (If I Forget Thee Jerusalem!)- Faulkner
Three Novels (Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable)- Beckett
A House for Mr Biswas- Naipaul
Why? I wanted The Wild Palms and the Beckett trilogy and my Borders had neither. So I decided to order them off Amazon since they have discounts too...but I needed to go over $25 to get the free shipping so...Mr. Biswas.